| Description | Edith 'Edie' Garvie (b.1928-) is a retired teacher who specialised in English as a Foreign Language. She travelled all over the world, hitchhiking, staying in hostels and meeting new friends. Garvie took her love and skill of teaching English through the art of story-telling all over the world; Uganda, India, Palestine (Gaza), Zurich, Strasbourg, Australia, and many other locations. She published guides, articles and books for teachers in training, and was a prolific letter writer and diarist. Her journal entries from 1985 onwards were often written on the reverse of other papers, providing yet another insight into her life, work, philanthropy, and social life in Peterborough. In Peterborough she was the County Adviser for Multi-Cultural Education and consulted with the Emergency Education Unit at Morton Hall, Lincolnshire during the re-settlement of Vietnamese Refugees known as the 'Boat People'. The International Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) features heavily in many of the journal entries as does the British Council (BC). Member of Royal Over-Seas League and stayed at the location in Park Place London often.
She was active in her local church community becoming a Reader and eventually became a Quaker in 1998. Born in Edinburgh, she settled in Orton Longueville, Peterborough in the early 1980's working as a consultant in her specialised field. In 1992 she moved to Orton Goldhay. These letters and journals chronical her life from young adult to retiree. |