amanuensis

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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

When Plath wasn’t banging on about Hughes’s virility, “his health and hugeness,” she waxed ecstatic about the pleasures of “domesticalia” and of serving as Hughes’s amanuensis and literary agent.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 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