What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory ?

A. a new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays

B. a, b and c

C. a popular thirst for the classics, driving contemporary writers to the margins

D. the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed

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