Mother's Day 2013: Susan Greenfield says 'Mum? I owe her everything'

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.2em;">Baroness Susan Greenfield, the ground-breaking professor of neuroscience, crossbench peer and burgeoning novelist, says her achievements are down to her formidable mother, Dorice</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.2em;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em;">When she was eight years old, Susan Greenfield was chosen to be a duchess in her school play. “I woke up that morning and there, hanging on the door, was this most amazing dress,” she remembers. “It was lilac. This was a fairytale dress.”</span><br /><div><br /><div class="secondPar" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12px;"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;">Baroness Greenfield’s mother, Dorice, recalls making it: “I stuck loads of cottonwool on, then dotted blobs of ink to make it look like ermine,” she says. “On stage, it looked really good.”</div></div><div class="thirdPar" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12px;"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;">They glance at each other, and Susan says: “That is the sort of thing a loving mother will do for a daughter. Not telling you, either, so you wake up and there’s this real surprise.”</div></div><div class="fourthPar" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12px;"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"><img caption="Susan Greenfield pictured with her mother" declared-caption="" height="287" name="collect" photographer="" refid="2505052" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02505/collect_2505052c.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline;" version="c" width="460" /></div></div><div class="fifthPar" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12px;"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;">^{A young Susan Greenfield pictured with her mother}</div></div></div><script src="http://player.ooyala.com/player.js?height=315&embedCode=4xMXkwYToEUeSFNU07eq7oaNKrL8n-I7&video_pcode=RvbGU6Z74XE_a3bj4QwRGByhq9h2&deepLinkEmbedCode=4xMXkwYToEUeSFNU07eq7oaNKrL8n-I7&width=560"></script></div></div>

Mother's Day 2013 Mother's Day 2013: Susan Greenfield says 'Mum? I owe her everything'

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