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AMANUENSIS. One who write another dictates. About the beginning of the sixth century,, the tabellions (q.v.) were known by this name. 1 Sav. Dr. Rom. Moy. Age, n. 16.

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However, he continually avoids and displaces Dulcie's experience, requiring the amanuensis to narrativize Dulcie's life with little to no evidence.

Historical Violence and Modernist Forms in Zoe Wicomb's David's Story

Of course this violation of Juan's employment as an amanuensis doesn't go unnoticed.

Listening in: Javier Marias's novel of espionage and betrayal in post- Franco Spain

One of the themes that occur in West African slave narratives as well as the North American slaves is the problem of the amanuensis. The amanuensis crafts, writes, edits, and publishes the slave narrative.

West African narratives of slavery texts from late-nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Ghana

An amanuensis is one who produces a fair copy, or takes dictation.

An interview with Thomas Meyer

Amanuensis is available for purchase online through the author's website, from the publisher, Amazon.com, BN.com and other online retailers.

International Author Promotes His Coming-of-Age Novel About a Young Jewish Man, Amanuensis

Gilbert Adalr's adaptation of his novel "A Closed Book" pits a blind art critic against his amanuensis in his English castle, but the resulting game of cat-and-mouse will make more noise in ancillary than in this limited theatrical window.

Blind Revenge

SITKOVETSKY DUO Bromsgrove Festival at Avoncroft Museum Bromsgrove Festival's evening celebrating Delius' sesquicentenary was a charming idea, attracting a large audience to the atmospherically medieval (despite its name) New Guesten Hall for a recital by one of the most spectacular recent prizewinners of the festival's International Young Musician's Platform, and beginning with a screening of Ken Russell's acclaimed television documentary recounting the years the young Eric Fenby devoted himself as amanuensis to the blind, paralysed and dying composer.

SITKOVETSKY DUO Bromsgrove Festival at [...]; ClassicalReviews

Marlowe was a possibility as an amanuensis for a while, although any scholar who has studied the plays of the respective playwrights would know immediately that Marlowe indulged in grandiose themes in mediocre rhyme, compared to Shakespeare.

Anonymous

Moreover, in the same spirit of magnanimity that impelled Lord Rockingham to make Edmund Burke his amanuensis, Nicholas befriended me--then as now, a poor Russian writer--and had me elected to his club.

A sad coincidence

Murphy should be in charge of it with the wasting asset Brian Wilson his chief amanuensis. This is no time for amateurs.

Lamont would be Labour's lament; 'Lamont is totally unelectable as the first minister, and I say this as someone who has known her since she was a teenager'

But he is a big figure in my life, bigger perhaps than he knows, because he is the amanuensis of my dreams.

Paintings hurled me into a miraculous world of intensity; A major exhibition by Clive Hicks-Jenkins has gone on show at the National Library of Wales. Here actor, director and writer Simon Callow explains what the Welsh artist's work means to him

Theirs was a remarkable but highly-charged marriage during which Sonya became not just the mother of 13 children (the role of endless brood mare imposed by a sexually voracious husband who did not believe in contraception), but also her husband's devoted copyist and amanuensis. Sparks flew when Sonya fiercely protected her husband's valuable literary legacy against perceived predators, which brought her into conflict with Tolstoy's manipulative secretary Vladimir Chertkov, whom Sonya despised.