George ___, "Middlemarch" author

ELIOT

This Victorian novelist wrote under a male pen name to ensure serious literary consideration.

This clue asks for the last name of the author who wrote Middlemarch, a famous 19th-century novel. The answer is "ELIOT," which was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, a prominent Victorian writer. The clue is straightforward—no wordplay—just testing knowledge of classic literature. If you know the book or the author’s pseudonym, the answer comes easily.