Lucy Apsley, the daughter of Sir Allen Apsley, the Lieutenant of the Tower of London, was born in 1620. She later recalled: "By the time I was four years old I read English perfectly... I had a great memory. I was carried to sermons... and could remember and repeat them exactly... When I was seven years I had tutors teaching me languages, music, dancing, writing and needlework... My father taught me Latin and I was soon better than my brothers who were at school."

When she was eighteen she married John Hutchinson, a large landowner in Nottingham. Lucy Hutchinson and her husband were both Baptists. During the Civil War John was an officer in the Parliamentary army, whereas Lucy worked as a nurse. Share later wrote about her experiences and pointed out that after one battle she even nursed members of the royalist army. "In the encounter only five of our men were hurt... we dressed all their wounds with such success that they were all cured... Seeing three of the prisoners badly bleeding I dressed their wounds also... Captain Palmer came in and told me not to help the enemies of God. I replied, I had a duty to treat them as men, not as enemies."

On the Restoration John Hutchinson was arrested as he had signed the death warrant of Charles I. He died in prison in 1664. Lucy Hutchinson wrote her account of the Civil War and a biography of her husband entitled, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, in about 1670, but it was too critical of the monarchy to be published in her lifetime. In her book she praised the Levellers: "These good-hearted people wanted justice for the poor as well as the mighty... for this they were nicknamed the Levellers... these men were just and honest."

Lucy Hutchinson died in about 1680.