"Middlemarch" author
I believe the answer is:
'middlemarch author' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
This is the entire clue.
(Other definitions for eliot that I've seen before include "George - - (novelist)" , "T S . . . . ., great poet of 'The Waste Land'" , "British poet, d. 1965" , "T.S. or George?" , "Murder in the Cathedral author" .)