"Middlemarch" novelist (5)
I believe the answer is:
eliot
'middlemarch novelist' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
This is the entire clue.
(Other definitions for eliot that I've seen before include "Female novelist" , "See 14" , "T.S. or George?" , "T S . . . . ., great poet of 'The Waste Land'" , "thin material rejected" .)