Background
Eldershaw was born in Sydney but grew up in the Riverina district of country New South Wales. She was the fifth of eight children born to Henry Sirdefield Eldershaw, a station manager, and Margaret (née McCarroll).
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1929
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Eldershaw was born in Sydney but grew up in the Riverina district of country New South Wales. She was the fifth of eight children born to Henry Sirdefield Eldershaw, a station manager, and Margaret (née McCarroll).
Eldershaw attended boarding school at Mount Erin Convent in Wagga Wagga. After school, she studied history and Latin at the University of Sydney.
Eldershaw worked as a teacher, first at Cremorne Church of England Grammar and then, from 1923, at Presbyterian Ladies' College, Croydon, where she became senior English mistress and head of the boarding school.
In 1941, Flora moved to Canberra to take up a government position, transferring to Melbourne in 1943 where she worked for the Department of Labour and National Service.
In 1948 Flora started working as a private consultant in industrial matters such as women's legal rights and equal pay, and extending her interests into the welfare of Aboriginal and migrant women.
Since 1935, Flora had been working as a freelance writer with Marjorie Barnard.
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1929Eldershaw strongly supported the pro-Soviet stance of the Fellowship of Australian Writers.
Eldershaw was a member and a President of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and a member of the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Literary Fund.