[2][3] She was educated at the Hammarstedtska skolan run by Augusta Bjurström [se] and studied music and languages with Adolf Fredrik Lindblad.

[2] Involved in the intra-church revival movement, she along with friends Betty Ehrenborg and Mathilda Foy established one of the first Sunday schools in the capital in the 1840s.

[4] Upon her return to Sweden and began to implement methods she had learned abroad into programs to provide care for the poor, as well as children and youth.

[2][4] She also wrote her first original publication that year, Sanning och dikt: pennritningar från Skärgården (Truth and Poetry: Pencil Drawings from the Archipelago), a book of religiously themed poems.

She had published translations beginning in 1852 with a two-volume work based on Catherine Maria Sedgwick's 700-page book analyzing the benefits of whether or not to marry.

[2][5] (However, Johanna McElwee, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in the Department of Scandinavian Languages at Uppsala University,[6] has suggested that the 1852 work translated by Ramsay might in fact have been by another anonymous author, with a similar title to Sedgwick's 1857 novel.

During the meetings, the women would distribute milk and bread and host sewing workshops to repair and mend clothing to assist poor families.

[4] From 1870, Ramsay was more dedicated to her writing, producing around 100 translations, articles, and pamphlets for newspapers and women's magazines on a broad range of topics including children's health, epilepsy, religious enlightenment, social projects, and temperance.

[1][2] Ramsay continued to make study trips abroad and became involved in the temperance movement because of her many stays in seaside towns, where she came into contact with the habits of sailors.

[9] During a trip to the south of France, she visited the Asiles de La Force in Dordogne to study children who were both epileptic and mentally challenged.