Possible Clues:

• Pen name of the novelist Mary Ann Evans
• Giant of Victorian lit, born 200 years ago today
• "The Lifted Veil" author
• "Silas Marner" author
• Pen-name of Mary Ann Evans
• "Middlemarch" novelist
• Pen name of the female author of 'Silas Marner'
• "Adam Bede" novelist
• 'Silas Marner' writer
• "Middlemarch" author