"Middlemarch" novelist, 1871 (5)
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?" .)