T.S. Eliot and George Eliot were two of the most influential writers of the 19th century. T.S. Eliot was an American-born British poet, playwright, and literary critic, best known for his poem 'The Waste Land'. George Eliot was a British novelist, poet, and essayist, best known for her novels Middlemarch and Silas Marner. Both writers had a profound impact on literature and culture, and their works are still widely read today.