[1] Groom was born at Corringham in Essex to a master mariner and his wife.
[1] She studied under the influential printmaker Claude Flight at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art before, in 1921, enrolling at Leon Underwood's Brook Green School to develop her skills as an engraver.
[2][3] Groom's prints featured areas of black outlined in white but with great attention to detail.
[2][3] In 1937, she produced two books for the Golden Cockerel Press, an edition of Paradise Lost by Milton and Roses of Sharon, a collection of Old Testament verses.
[1][4] For many years, she lived at Southwold before moving to Wenhaston in Suffolk, which was still her home when she died in 1958 in Norwich.