She studied ballet with Malvina Cavallazzi, Alexander Genée, Adolph Bolm, Enrico Cecchetti, and Anna Pavlova.

[1] From 1907 Bedells was a dancer at the London Empire Theatre[2] and became the first British prima ballerina there in 1914.

[3] She left in 1916 to dance in West End musical revues and in opera ballets at Covent Garden.

During the Second World War, she taught ballet at the Palais de Danse in St Ives, Cornwall.

[5] In 1976, she recorded an interview for the Dance Oral History Project at the New York Public Library.