The British Medical Journal reported in 1891 that she was in the list of successful students who had passed the exams of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Edinburgh.

[5] In the early 1930s, at the end of her career, she and her housekeeper and partner, Charlotte Tulloch, came to live together in "The Bungalow" on the island of North Ronaldsay when Garvie was nearly sixty.

[6] She was part of the community for sixteen years and in that time the transportation to the island improved when the first airstrip was built.

The photographs and films that were curated by Jenny Brownrigg were by Helen Biggar, Violet Banks, Christina Broom, M.E.M.

Donaldson, Jenny Gilbertson, Isabel Frances Grant, Ruby Grierson, Marion Grierson, Isobel Wylie Hutchison, Johanna Kissling, Isabell Burton-MacKenzie, Margaret Fay Shaw, Margaret Watkins and Garvie.