Austen was the first to treat marriage as a complex set of social negotiaions with economic and moral factors taken into account. Nothing trivial about it. And Eliot brought a genunine intellectual rigor to the English novel. Unless you just think the everday is trival. George Eliot is something of the English Tolsoty actually.
Not recognizing that a writer is trivial is like not knowing who the sucker is at a poker game.