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

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

Despite, or perhaps because of, her privileged role as the headmistress’s amanuensis, Jane is one of the most vociferous voices of dissent against the practice of self-erasure in the name of necromancy.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2018

Her career was wobbly by then, but for much of the time before her death in 1975, Mr. Baker supported her, serving as manager, companion and amanuensis.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2015

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

He had many devoted friends who advised and helped him, acted as his amanuenses, and, as we have seen, shielded him by assuming authorship of his works.

From Kościuszko A Biography by Monica M. (Monica Mary) Gardner

He appears to have kept amanuenses to copy interesting manuscripts.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

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

We went through the entire pleadings of this case and when finished, took up another and another until now we are not lawyers, but some are able to be stenographers for lawyers, and others amanuenses.

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