Also, to some extent, Jonson's attitude to these woman writers as their friend was consistent: in Conversation with Drummond, where he sharply criticized a large amount of his contemporary writers, and of which conversation he never expected anyone other than Drummond or himself would hear his words, he said Lady Rutland was no inferior than her father (Sidney), and Mary Wroth married a man not worthy of her. Both opinions he had more or less expressed in his poems dedicated to these two separatively. When all in the literary world (and aristocratic, too) disparaged Mary Wroth for her romantic prose and scourged her, Jonson wrote to her saying her writings made himself a better poet.