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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: Pressbooks at TAMU - Surface and Subtext: Literature, Research, Writing - Brief History and Evolution of the Novella.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 13, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - The Novella as Technology: A Media Story.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 13, 2024
	Add new Web site: Literary Devices - Novella.	Grace Young	Apr 19, 2018
	Added new Web site: Brown University - Novella before Boccaccio.	Kanchan Gupta	Jan 04, 2008
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Sep 17, 1999
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998