sentences:  Critic Álvaro Lins remarked in 1941 that there was little difference between the two novels.Du Maurier rebuffed claims of plagiarism in a 1941 Letter to the Editor in "The New York Times", where she wrote that she had not heard of Nabuco or "A Sucessora" until the previous year.Du Maurier's publishers also denied any intentional similarities between the two works, although Nabuco herself believed that her work had been plagiarized and there were claims that du Maurier's publisher intentionally gave her a copy of Nabuco's manuscript.