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"Middlemarch" novelist, 1871 (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eliot

'middlemarch novelist 1871' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for eliot that I've seen before include "T S . . . . ., great poet of 'The Waste Land'" , "One of two writers" , "See 14" , "Female novelist" , "T.S. or George?" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.
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