[1] Between 1892 and 1896 Steele studied at the National Art Training School, NATS, in London where she was taught by the sculptor Édouard Lantéri.
[2] Among her contemporaries at NATS, which became the Royal College of Art in 1896, were a number of other female students who became notable sculptors including Margaret Giles, Ruby Levick, Esther Moore, Lilian Simpson and Lucy Gwendolen Williams.
[3] She created a large amount of work in silver including jewellery, mirror frames, caskets, walking stick heads, christening cups and alms dishes and, in bronze, portrait medallions and sundials.
[4] Between 1896 and 1918 Steele had some 34 works shown at the Royal Academy including the statuette Hero finding the body of Leander and the bas relief Dawn Dispelling Sleep and Night.
[1] Her work was promoted by the Art Union of London which produced a limited edition of Dawn Dispelling Sleep and Night for subscribers in 1910.