Susan Look Avery (née Look; October 27, 1817 – February 1, 1915) was an American writer, suffragist, pacifist and supporter of temperance as well as a single tax.

[1] She moved with her family to western New York where she grew up in a rural setting and among the many who were impacted by the Second Great Awakening in the "Burned-Over District."

The next year, they bought a summer residence - Hillside - in Wyoming which they shared with Susan's sister, Julia and her husband, Albert Capwell, a lawyer in Brooklyn, New York.

[citation needed] On December 25, 1847, the Avery family moved to Louisville, Kentucky to start up an agricultural foundry and plow factory.

Susan Look Avery hosted Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell of the American Woman Suffrage Association when they were in Louisville for the national convention in 1881.

[7] According to her family, in her later years, she invited and hosted such notables as Susan B. Anthony, Reverend Anna Howard Shaw, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Booker T.

[8] She wrote: Let us also thank God and take courage, that women, through whom sanitation must come... are thinking and speaking on the subject - the prevention of vice, crime and sorrow as never before; with an earnestness born of conviction of responsibility and the fervent desire to meet it.

In September 1900, she hosted all the officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association after their business meeting in Rochester, New York.

When I think of present conditions, not only In South Africa and the Philippines, but in our own nominally Christian land, I am appalled by the apathy and indifference of intelligent and in some ways thoughtful women.

She was a guest of honor at the Second Annual Single Tax Conference held in Chicago in 1911 and spoke at the Fels Fund dinner to praise their stance on "the color line."