"Silas Marner" novelist (5)
I believe the answer is:
eliot
'silas marner novelist' 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. or George?" , "Middlemarch author" , "George - - (novelist)" , "One of two writers" , "T S . . . . ., great poet of 'The Waste Land'" .)