Dr. Symmon's official web site is here.
Her page on her book of Goya letters is here.
The Amazon U.K. page for ordering the book is here.
Guardian Unlimited brief review here.

Cover to the book from Pimlico Press by Dr. Symmons

Our 2006 Interview with Dr. Symmons here.

Our 2004 Interview with Dr. Symmons here.

Sarah Symmon Lecture in Edinburgh
Dr. Sarah Symmons will provide a lecture at the Talbot Rice Theatre, University of Edinburgh Scotland on Saturday, 11th November. The lecture is on Raeburn and Goya: The Redefining of Artistic Personality. This event is a part of the exhibition "Raeburn and his printmakers" at National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.

• Sarah Symmons Web Site
• Scotland National Gallery Web Site

Sarah Symmon's Art and Ideas: Goya book sales exceed 200,000
Details about this book (we have a review here) are at the sarahsymmons.com web site. It also notes the book has been translated into French, Japanese and Greek.

London Goya Lecture by Dr. Sarah Symmons
Dr. Symmons web site has notation of a lecture slated for Thursday, November 24th 2005 at 2:30 pm at the Wallace Collection in London. The web site announcement is here. The Wallace Collection web site is here.

BBC "Goya's Black Art" Dr. Sarah Symmons
You can read the text of a piece by Dr. Sarah Symmons about Goya which was broadcast on the BBC "Night Waves" program, Dr. Symmons professional web site is here. The text for "Goya's Black Art" is here.

"Goya himself disliked wearing black. When the court was in mourning for King Carlos III he wrote that everyone went round looking like crows."

When we wrote Dr. Symmons about obtaining an interview, she mentioned her coming book on Goya's letters. Below is a portion of what she mentioned concerning her coming book on Goya's letters.

"My next book is the first English translation of all Goya's letters (both professional and personal) and will be published on 5th February 2004 by Pimlico, Random House, London. The translator is the late Philip Troutman, a former curator of the Courtauld Galleries in London, (which incidentally has a magnificent Goya portrait in its collection) and he devoted his retirement to translating Goya's writings. When he died in 1999 his widow turned his unfinished project over to Juliet Wilson Bareau and asked if she would finish it. Juliet had no time and asked me to take on the work. I have edited all the letters, completed the translations and written five chapters of commentary on Goya's writing style and the drawings in his letters. The book should be a major contribution to Goya scholarship..."

Sarah Symmons-Goubert is a lecturer at the University of Essex. She has had five books published and organized two international exhibitions on British Romantic Painting and the art of the sculptor John Flaxman.

Her books are:
Goya: In Pursuit of Patronage
(Hardcover - December 1988)
ISBN: 0860920755
Daumier
(Hardcover - September 2004)
To be released by Chaucer Press.
Goya
Phaidon Art & Ideas 1998
ISBN: 0714837512
Goya: A Life in Letters
Edited by Sarah Symmons
Category: Biography & Autobiography; Literary Criticism - Letters
Pimlico, April 2004
ISBN: 0-7126-0679-3
Flaxman and Europe:
The Outline Illustrations and Their Influence
ISBN: 0824059875
303 pages, New York, Garland Pub., 1984.
Library of Congress Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Courtauld Institute of Art, London
University.

Links:
The Savannah College of Art & Design has a page on Dr. Symmon's January, 2003 lecture here.
The University of Essex has a page on Dr. Symmons here.
Chaucer Press has a page announcing Symmon's book on Daumier here.