[1] She earned bachelor's degrees from Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas in 1911, where she wrote the school song, "Hail!

[4][5][6] Bideau taught voice and was director of the vocal department at the State Normal School in Pittsburg, Kansas from 1916 to 1919.

[10][11] When she returned to the United States, she gave concerts for troops stationed in Kansas.

[20] She wrote "Tone Coloring in Singing" an essay published in Étude magazine in 1955.

[21] Edith Bideau married Swedish diplomat Carl Gustav Normelli in 1920.