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

She became not only Wiggins’ full-time caregiver but her amanuensis and archivist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2022

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

“The sextet of Robert Frobisher. He was an amanuensis for my father, when my father was too old, too blind, too weak to hold a pen.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2014

He was nearly blind, and had to teach himself Spanish and look up authorities through the help of others, and to write with a noctograph or by amanuenses.

From Initial Studies in American Letters by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

The amanuenses or penmen of the Holy Ghost for the Scriptures were not contemptible or ordinary, but incomparable and extraordinary persons.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines

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

The custom of employing women as amanuenses has grown very largely of late years.

From Work for Women by George J. Manson