"[7]: 5 Geddes oversaw many practical details during the Summer Meetings organised by her husband in the 1890s, especially the music - calling upon performers such as Marjory Kennedy Fraser.
[1] Her travels with her husband included journeying to Cyprus and organizing care for Armenian refugees (1896–7),[4]: 17 visiting the United States in late 1899 through early 1900,[4]: 185–187 and spending most of 1900 in Paris, where Patrick ran a summer school during the World's Fair.
[9] Geddes gave birth to their first child, Norah in 1887, followed by Alasdair and Arthur, in a rundown tenement, James Court, in the Lawnmarket, where the couple had moved to work on the Edinburgh Old Town rehabilitation schemes.
She planned and created gardens and playgrounds in slum areas of Dublin (1911–13) and in Edinburgh's Old Town, as a member of Geddes's Open Spaces committee.
[11] In 1917, during a second visit to India, while she was the primary organizer of a version of the Edinburgh Summer meetings that was planned to feature Rabindranath Tagore, Geddes died from typhoid fever in Lucknow.