[3] By 1851, he had also moved into fiction, publishing The Sunny Side by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (the mother of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward).
Jewett and partners Proctor and Worthington, he formed a second publishing business in Cleveland, which took on the responsibility of selling Uncle Tom's Cabin in the west.
[3] Upon the urgings of his wife that it would sell well, he acquired the rights to Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852.
[4][5][6] In 1854, Jewett published another bestseller, The Lamplighter by Maria Susanna Cummins.
The continuing demand for these two books required Jewett to borrow capital, which led him to have to declare bankruptcy due to the Panic of 1857.