amanuensis

Anthony never married, and she considered herself to some degree Stanton’s amanuensis, confiding to an intimate that she felt that her best work had been “making the way clear” for her friend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

In later years, with Mr. Merwin’s eyesight failing, Paula Merwin became his amanuensis, taking down new poems at his dictation.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2019

Dazzled by Kubrick, Vitali largely lost interest in acting and instead became Kubrick’s amanuensis, performing unsung tasks on The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2018

For its first foray into the mini-books market, Dutton is reissuing four young-adult novels, available individually or in a boxed set, by the blockbuster amanuensis of adolescent yearning John Green.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 30, 2018

So Corinthians was almost on her way to becoming an amanuensis after all.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Further complications ensue when the maestro and the diva fall in love with their amanuenses.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2014

Impressing the services of Smith and his wife as amanuenses, Brett despatched the requisite letters before he retired for the night.

From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy

Mr. Murray's profits would have been greater, though "authors," amanuenses, photographers, paper-makers, West-End booksellers, and other parasitic artisans might have suffered slightly.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett

That the nephews still hovered about Milton, and resided with him occasionally, together or by turn, giving him their services as amanuenses, appears to be certain.

From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by David Masson

This shows the confidential nature of the Vavasours' employment as amanuenses by Tresham in such matters.

From The Identification of the Writer of the Anonymous Letter to Lord Monteagle in 1605 by George Blacker Morgan