SOURCE: '"Too Much Love-Making': Anne of Green Gables on Television," in The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature, Vol. 11, No. 2, October, 1987, pp. 63-72.
In the following essay, Drain discusses the manner in which plot alterations in the television adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables shifted focus from Anne's maturation to her romance with Gilbert Blythe.