Antedating of "Chick Lit"

[Shapiro, Fred]

The OED's first citation for "chick lit" is dated 1993.  According to Wikipedia, it appears five years earlier in this book:

Don M. Betterton, Alma mater: unusual stories and little-known facts from America's college campuses, Peterson's Guides, Princeton, N.J. (1988); p. 113<http://books.google.com/books?id=s_C7AAAAIAAJ&q=%22chick+lit%22&dq=%22chick+lit%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1994&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES&pgis=1>

Fred Shapiro

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