Her father Cecil was a surveyor and her mother Frances (née Davies-Colley) was a painter, trained at the Slade.

[3] Introduced to photographer Helen Muspratt by artist F. H. "Fra" Newbery, the two women opened a studio together in Cambridge in 1932.

The photography studio, Ramsey & Muspratt, was a successful commercial venture, and the pair photographed influential social, academic, and artistic figures in Cambridge throughout the 1930s.

[7] In the 1930s, the Ramsey & Muspratt studio was noted for using the solarization process in some portrait work;[8][citation needed] two of the firm's photographs were accepted in the London Salon of Photography in both 1936 and 1937.

[10][citation needed] Fourteen of Ramsey's portraits of the Bloomsbury Group were published in a calendar by the Charleston Trust in 1990.