Early Life and Education
Lucas was born in Malvern in Worcestershire, to middle class and Conservative-voting parents. Her father ran a small central heating company.
Lucas was educated at Malvern Girls' College (which became Malvern St James in 2006), an independent school in Great Malvern. She then went to the University of Exeter, where she gained a first-class BA (Hons) in English Literature, which she completed in 1983. While there, she went on many trips to Greenham Common and Molesworth peace camps when involved with CND. She took a scholarship at the University of Kansas between 1983 and 1984 before doing a Diploma of Journalism in 1987. She earned her PhD from the University of Exeter in 1989 with a thesis entitled Writing for Women: a study of woman as reader in Elizabethan romance.
Lucas was an activist in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and was heavily involved in the Snowball Campaign against US military bases in the UK.
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