Found: Adult Dark Thriller (Fiction)

The story is set in the mid 1700s about a young woman who grows up with a father who dislikes her because she looks like her mother who left him to become a prostitute. She grows up a young, pretty woman after a hard time in her early teenage years with a reputation for being fat and ugly with poor hygiene. Her middle school crush who was cruel and used to make fun of her eventually makes her his girlfriend. He and his friends devise a plan to rape her and they go through with it. All except one; Phillipe, a french man who hears about it and decides to help her save face by marrying her after getting word that she stabbed herself in the chest, an attempt at suicide. During hospital visits to see her, he meets a girl Billie-Joe, who has been admiring him from afar, and he falls in love with her, but because of his promise to the female lead, they can't be together. She gets better and Phillipe makes plans to marry her, but soon learns he has to go to France to study medicine. He leaves her pregnant with his child, but promises to return soon to marry her. Her father finds out she's pregnant and sends her to a convent, where she meets a man, James (I think that's his name), and tries to pin her pregnancy on him. The plan foils however, being discovered by the reverend mother. During this time, there's a girl in the convent that hates her, and so the female lead character destroys her face by pouring acid on it, and leaves the convent, with the story making it on the newspapers. She ends up at her mother's whorehouse, and offers to work there. She tells her mother that she's pregnant however, and so her mother gets her assistant to do what has been done to girls like her in the past: Lace a glass of champagne with something that can kill the baby from inside. She does it, and it works. She works there regardless, but highly displeases the men she sleeps with, who call her cold and wicked, and so a price is placed on her head for whoever can make her orgasm, and so a man comes and succeeds. She becomes interested in him and they avidly have sex. Eventually, he gets taken to prison and killed there by a jealous "lover" who catches him sleeping with a fellow inmate (he is gay, and made this discovery when he was raped by some gang members when he was about twelve). She is disheartened by the news and considers leaving the whorehouse after but doesn't until her father sees her there one day and dies from a heart attack out of shock (he was a policeman, I forgot to mention in the beginning).She then leaves the whorehouse, and shortly after, meets Phillipe's uncle and marries him, partly because he is wealthy and she enjoys sex with him, but mostly because she hopes when Phillipe returns she'll get to know and they can pick up from where they left off. Phillipe does return, but is married to Billie-Joe (an occurence that happens after Billie-Joe shows the newspaper article about what she had done in the convent to Phillipe's father). She is upset, but decides to continue with her plan to get him back, which consists of sleeping around until Phillipe's uncle tires of her and divorces her, but the plan fails, as Phillipe's uncle kept on forgiving her and taking her back. Soon after, he passes away, and she (in a sense) "looses it". She gets locked up in her late husband's house. She learns that Phillipe has divorced Billie-Joe, and decides she can finally get what she wants. So she deceives the fiance of her very good African-american friend (her mother's whorehouse assistant) to elope with her, as she has "fallen in love with him", and tells her to meet her at a place where there was a large, gaping space dividing the land with a horse and a gun. She escapes the house through a window on the highest floor, and meets him there. She shoots him with the gun, and waits for Phillipe. Phillipe gets there and she tells him to elope with her. He refuses and she ends up shooting him too. The story ends with her having a disorder that makes her unable to move any part of her body but her eyes.
There are parts I specifically remember: She had a brother, Billy, who had been given birth to by her stepmother, and in the early chapters of the book, she had tried to kill him with a pair of scissors when he was just a baby.
Her stepmother's name was Josephine.
The was a part where she caught her father and Josephine having sex, and she says something along the lines of "yes daddy, bust her! She ain't nothin' but a whore!"
When she was courting Phillipe, he brought over frog legs one time, and they were going to have it for dinner, and she was coming down the stairs, and Phillipe was giving Josephine a peck on the cheek, but when they heard her coming down the stairs, they turned their faces and accidentally kissed.
Her brother Billy dies as a member of some gang.
There was a mention of some moving circus man who used to go around killing people, which was actually happening in reality during the timeline in which this story was written.
Phillipe met Billie-Joe knitting, and said "Purl one, drop two," to get her attention and says he learnt it from his sisters.
The main character once went to give to an orphanage owned by some catholics.
She is described as beautiful after recovering from her attempted suicide, but in a scary, deathly way.
Her eyes were described being as cold-looking as ice, with being able to terrify anyone in the room with just a glance.
She once sends a picture of herself nude and a letter to Phillipe and Josephine's residence, and Josephine says she'll leave Phillipe because she saw the look of love/lust on his face when he saw the picture, and Phillipe goes into this raw, honest speech about still loving the female lead and lusting after her body for a mere second, but that was it.
The book came without a cover when I got it, but the spine was white, with the title written in a rectangle in big, bold letters. The title of the book goes along the ways of "The girl on *something* street", but because of the word(s) I have forgotten, it makes it hard to find.

The Girl From Storyville by Frank Yerby.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1964923.The_Girl_From_Storyville

Yes, it's the one! Thank you soo soo much, I am really grateful!

Glad to help:) You gave so much detail!

touchstone: The Girl from Storyville